Healthy Living Toolkits

Children and youth with mental health challenges often face unique obstacles to healthy living, including:

the symptoms of their illness

the medication they are on

the stigma of having a mental illness

TheHealthy Living ... It's in Everyone Toolkit for Families was developed in collaboration with FamilySmartTM, and includes information, resources, and tools to help children and youth with mental health challenges develop healthy living habits.

Printed Family Toolkits

Printed versions of the Family Toolkit can be borrowed from the BC Children's Hospital Family Resource Library (Note: the BC Children's Hospital library lends to anyone in BC, free of charge).

The Family Toolkit is also available in a number of public libraries across BC (Note: Please email keltycentre@cw.bc.ca if you would like this resource added to your public library).

Videos for Families: Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

These videos were created to support families in setting S.M.A.R.T. goals with their health professionals, using the information and resources in the Family Toolkit. S.M.A.R.T. goal setting helps you to make specific goals towards the changes you want to make.

These videos were created to support health professionals in working through the suggested approach to having a conversation about healthy living with families (see Module 1: Getting Started), using the information and resources in the toolkit. This approach involves the creation of a small, manageable S.M.A.R.T. goal for healthy living. S.M.A.R.T. goal setting has been found to help children maintain focus and provides structure in changing behaviour.

This approach was developed in collaboration with a representative group of health professionals from across B.C., and FamilySmart™.